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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

Gaston Bachelard

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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Better Clever Myself Possession World
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
There is no original truth, only original error.
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Errors Original Truth
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Feminine Ourselves Rest Spiritual
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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Awake Consciousness Fall Harmony Poetic Record
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Small Story Word World
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life

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